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Chapter 742

As the sky was getting dark, a row of soldiers, holding on to torches, came out from the west gate of the city.

On the city tower, Lu Wenhuan, who had just taken over Dengzhou City, had ordered people to remove Shi Quan's head hanging on a high pole, put it in a box, and covered it with lime.

This is the first thing after entering the city.

Lu Wenhuan looked at his old opponent in the box for a while, and probably understood how Li Xia took down Dengzhou.

Two groups of soldiers and horses, one out of Hanshui River and one way out of Wuguan, jointly attacked Dengzhou City.Over there, Shi Quan rushed to support from Tangzhou, but was attacked and killed by Li Xia from the north.

Once the general died and the head was handed over, Dengzhou City, which was surrounded on three sides, was destroyed...

Speaking of which, the three prefectures of Deng, Tang, and Cai, including Zaoyang and Xinyang, have always been like this during the Song-Jin War and the Song-Meng War, returning to the south today and returning to the north tomorrow.

Lu Wenhuan thought about it, and suddenly thought of Liu Zheng who took Xinyang with 12 people in Dengzhou City.

Afterwards, he came back to his senses and allowed Yang Ben to step forward.

Both sides clasped their fists together, and Lu Wenhuan opened his mouth and said, "I want to see the King of Pingling County."

He has a lot to say to Li Xia, but not to Yang Ben, so there is only this one sentence.

He was quite polite to Yang Ben, but actually he didn't take Yang Ben seriously, he just regarded Yang Ben as an insignificant person and didn't bother to say much.

Yang Ben also felt Lu Wenhuan's indifference towards him, and said with a cold face: "If you want to see the county king, you can, please go to Zhao Jiyi outside the city to meet General Lu."

"You want me to ignore the security in the city and go out of the city to see him?" Lu Wenhuan said with a smile, "It's too careful."

"If General Lu doesn't want to go, we'll leave now."

"Ok."

Lu Wenhuan actually had a lot to say about this, for example, Li Xia was too cautious, too timid to see him in the city.

On the other hand, he also understands that it is indeed possible for him to keep Li Xia behind with more than [-] troops entering Dengzhou.

On the contrary, he went out of the city to meet Li Xia, and Li Xia really had no reason to keep him.

Leading more than twenty personal guards, they rode their horses northward along the Tuanhe River in the dark for nearly an hour. In front of them was Li Xia's Zhao Ji camp.

Two large flags were erected in front of the camp. Lu Wenhuan looked up, and under the moonlight, he could vaguely see "Li, Song Pingling Wang Chuanshan Disposal Envoy" on one side, and "Song Chuanshan Disposal Deputy Envoy Zhang" on the other.

He shook his head and walked all the way into the big camp. A rough look at the number of tents showed that it was a camp of [-] troops.

Entering the big tent, I saw Li Xia sitting at the head in armor.

Different from the expected young and reckless image, Li Xia has a graceful temperament. Although his clothes are simple, there is a kind of nobility.

Looking back, there were four or five generals in the tent, but Zhang Jue was not seen.

……

"General Lu, there is no need to be too polite. Your elder brother and I are as close as brothers, so you and I are also brothers. Please sit down."

Lu Wenhuan was taken aback for a moment, and vaguely felt that the tone of the 22-year-old young man in front of him sounded like a brother.

Makes people feel ridiculous.

He pondered for a while, and first said: "Now Li Fen in Shandong raises his flag to rebel against Mongolia, and our Song Dynasty can send troops to cooperate. Since King Li Jun has captured Dengzhou, why should he retreat?"

Li Xia asked, "You don't want me to retreat?"

Lu Wenhuan nodded and said, "How about attacking Nanyang Mansion together?"

"Do not."

After seeing these few conversations, Li Xia already felt that Lu Wenhuan was different from Lu Wende.

Lu Wenhuan is much more refined, and has an air of loyalty and dignity.

Very standard Song military general look.

Presumably, it was because when Lu Wende made his fortune, Lu Wenhuan was still young. He had studied in the army and was educated in the officialdom, so he was not as vulgar as Lu Wende.

Li Xia thinks that Lu Wenhuan is a good person to be able to say that he has captured Nanyang Mansion and has the heart to regain it.

But he still refused...

The Nanyang area is indeed "in the world", which is very important to Mongolia. If Mongolia wants to attack the Song Dynasty, there must be a place where it can train sailors to go down the Yangtze River; it is also very important to the Great Song Dynasty. This is the gateway to the Yangtze River.

But it didn't mean much to Li Xia.

Whether Song or Mongolia wanted to fight Li Xia, to attack Hanzhong by the Hanshui River, or to attack key points by the Wuguan Road, they all needed to cross long mountain roads.

Nanyang is the gateway of the Song Dynasty, but not the gateway of Sichuan and Shaanxi.

Conversely, if Li Xia wants to attack Mongolia, he must attack Yanjing in the north; if he wants to attack Zhao and Song Dynasties, he can just go down the Yangtze River from Kuimen, and he doesn't need to go to Nanyang.

If he wants land, he has no shortage of land.

If the population is needed, the population can be relocated. Of course, the Mongolian army has surrounded them, and there is no time to relocate the population.

Of course, it is good to be able to take it down. What I am talking about here is whether it is worth using troops, and whether it can be taken down.

In short, at this stage, Li Xia never thought of attacking Nanyang City and Land.

Sometimes knowing what you want is more important than what you have.

……

"To tell you the truth, I don't even have enough money, food and troops to guard Guan Long."

"Really?" Lu Wenhuan didn't believe it, and asked instead, "If there were no troops to defend, why did you send troops to attack Dengzhou?"

"It's all about attacking instead of defending." Li Xia said.

Lu Wenhuan shook his head and said, "With all due respect, I don't agree with the so-called 'replacing defense with offense'. It's too risky."

"Everyone has different styles of fighting, so I don't need to force General Lu to agree."

"Just now I saw Zhang Shuai's banner outside the camp." Lu Wenhuan said, "If we join forces, we may be able to defeat Shi Tianze..."

"Zhang Jue didn't come." Li Xia replied flatly, "It's just a suspicious soldier."

Lu Wenhuan wasn't very surprised. He turned his eyes and looked at the two generals, one big and one small, in the tent.

The opponent cupped his fists in salute.

"Liu Yuanzhen."

"The last general, Zan Wanshou."

Zan Wanshou's attitude towards Lu Wenhuan was very respectful. He led more than [-] militiamen from Hanzhong, who were in charge of camping here, with more tents and banners.

Liu Yuanzhen, on the other hand, looked cold and not in a good mood. He led more than [-] troops from Lantian, Shangzhou, and Wuguan, and pretended to attack Nanyang Fucheng, creating momentum.

Hearing only the name "Liu Yuanzhen", Lu Wenhuan's face became serious.

To the northwest of Dengzhou is Wuguan Road, also known as "Shangshan Road", which leads to Chang'an via Neixiang, Wuguan, Shangzhou, and Lantian. Who has guarded Shangzhou and Wuguan all along?

It was Liu Heima, Liu Yuanzhen and his son, and this was Li Xia's advantage in attacking Dengzhou.

"We didn't bring too much luggage, and we didn't have [-] elite soldiers." Li Xia said, "The garrison of less than [-] is temporarily dispatched, and will return to defend various places soon... I didn't lie to General Lu, the strength of guarding Guanlong We are still stretched and unable to attack Nanyang."

"So that's how it is." Lu Wenhuan had already sensed that there was something wrong with the big camp, so he was not too surprised, and sighed helplessly: "It seems that the county king is determined to withdraw? Leave me alone to deal with the Henan Mongolian army?"

"General Lu wants this credit, doesn't he? If you get something, you will give something. You only need to guard for a period of time, and Shi Tianze will go to Shandong to suppress the rebellion. At that time, the merits of beheading Shi Quan and recovering Dengzhou will belong to General Lu."

"The king underestimated me." Lu Wenhuan said, "Not only for credit, but this time the troops are sent out to defend the country."

Li Xia originally thought that Lu Wenhuan came to Dengzhou to receive credit, but now he could feel the sincerity of his attitude, but he was slightly surprised, and finally nodded and smiled.

"It's a pleasure meeting General Lu today, and I hope that we will have the opportunity to fight the enemy side by side in the future..."

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It was night, after Lu Wenhuan met Li Xia, he returned to Dengzhou City.

An aide named "Fang Hui" beside him discussed with him for a while, and was very disappointed when he learned that Zhang Jue did not bring an army.

"Nanyang cannot be conquered, and Dengzhou is not easy to defend for a long time... It seems that Li Xia just wants to use the general to contain the Mongolian army."

Fang Hui said this, thought for a while, and then slowly said: "Since that's the case, why doesn't the general make a contribution to the court?"

Lu Wenhuan asked in surprise, "Make another contribution?"

A mysterious smile appeared in Fang Hui's eyes.

He had met Li Xia before, as early as the fifth year of Xingchang, when Jia Sidao was still in Ezhou, he sent him to Qingfu to pass on a message to Li Xia.

At that time, Fang Hui didn't have a good impression of Li Xia, and when he heard that Li Xia was rebellious, he felt that it was true.

"The general only needs to tell Shi Tianze about the suspected soldier, and he can just sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, and watch the foreign captives and the bandits fight each other to the death. When they both lose, the general can take back Nanyang..."

"Enough! Shut up..."

(End of this chapter)